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Upper Grindelwald Glacier, the Glossary

The Upper Grindelwald Glacier (German: Oberer Grindelwaldgletscher) is one of the two valley glaciers near Grindelwald on the northern side of the Bernese Alps, in the canton of Bern (the other being the Lower Grindelwald Glacier).^[1]

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Glaciers of the canton of Bern
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Alps

The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

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Bernese Alps

The Bernese Alps (Berner Alpen, Alpes bernoises, Alpi bernesi) are a mountain range of the Alps, located in western Switzerland.

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Canton of Bern

The canton of Bern, or Berne (Kanton Bern; canton de Berne; Chantun Berna; Canton Berna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Grindelwald

Grindelwald is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Berne.

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Ice tongue

An ice tongue or glacier tongue exists when there is a narrow floating part of a glacier that extends out into a body of water beyond the glacier's lowest contact with the Earth's crust.

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List of glaciers

A glacier or is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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List of glaciers in Switzerland

This is a non-exhaustive list of the major glaciers in Switzerland.

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Lower Grindelwald Glacier

The Lower Grindelwald Glacier (Unterer Grindelwaldgletscher) is a Glacier in the Swiss Bernese Alps, situated to the south-east of Grindelwald. Upper Grindelwald Glacier and Lower Grindelwald Glacier are Aare basin, canton of Bern geography stubs, glaciers of the Alps, glaciers of the canton of Bern, Grindelwald and Switzerland glacier stubs.

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Retreat of glaciers since 1850

The retreat of glaciers since 1850 is well documented and is one of the effects of climate change.

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Schreckhorn

The Schreckhorn (4,078 m) is a mountain in the Bernese Alps.

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Swiss Alps

The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions.

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